Data Copy from DVD

When you copy in DOS mode (xcopy) you simply copy the files, and you are not using the Windows GUI and it's overhead.

When you copy within Windows, numerous features(?) of the GUI slow down the process.First, you have the file transfer animation.Then if file indexing is enabled, every file is added to the index.On top of this, is the normal monitoring that Windows does on any file operations just to help you out.

As to size or number of files to be transferred, that depends on available resources. The less RAM that you have, and the less free HDD space, the slower the transfer will be as Windows constantly resizes the paging file.

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